At a more basic level, Americans are afraid not just of dying, but of talking and thinking about death.
在一个更为基础的水平上,美国人所害怕的不仅是死亡,还有谈论和思考死亡。
As a doctor I know that this is not a wholly unsubstantiated fear. But it is not death that scares many people - it is often the process of dying.
作为一名医生,我明白这种恐惧并不是完全不能克服的;但是很多人惧怕的不是死亡,而是走向死亡的那段时日。
Suppose that most times and most activities were death free, but certain activities introduce the possibility of dying.
假设大部分时间和大部分活动都是死亡免疫的,但某些活动,会引起死亡的可能性。
But here, unlike in the developed world where a woman's life time risk of dying during or following pregnancy is 1 in 4300, the risk of maternal death is very high at 1 in 31.
但在这儿,与妇女一生中在妊娠期间或之后的死亡风险为每4300人1例的发达世界相比,孕产妇死亡的风险很高,达到每31人1例。
A fear of death is a sensible evolved response and, since ageing is a sure way of dying, it is no surprise that people want to stop it in its tracks.
恐惧死亡是一种明智的进化反应,而衰老却是死亡的必经之路,因此,人们想阻止衰老进程就不足为奇了。
Glowing in vibrant colors, planetary nebulae, such as this one, represent the death rattles of dying stars.
在跳跃的颜色中烁烁发光的行星状星云(就像上面这颗)向人们描绘出垂死恒星的最后色彩。
The horrific death toll-as many as 5m-was caused, as so often in Africa, by people fleeing their homes and dying of hunger and disease.
但有一个非常可怕的死亡数字——五百万之多,因为人们逃离家园并死于饥饿与疾病,这在非洲如此常见。
On the left of the path the deceased dying of death sentence were buried, while the right of the path there were poor people's tombs.
路的左边,都埋着死刑和瘐毙的人,右边是穷人的丛冢。
Among the Romantics and the Victorians, suffering and dying from tuberculosis might be considered a badge of refinement; cancer death was nothing of the sort.
在浪漫主义时期和维多利亚时期,受肺结核折磨甚至死于肺结核被当成是文雅的标志;患癌死亡那就完全不同了。
Among the challenges faced by countries seeking to improve their end-of-life care is the task of overcoming perceptions of death and cultural taboos about dying.
一个国家要想改进自己的临终关怀,其面临的挑战之一,就是要更新对“死亡”的理解,破除对“濒死”的文化禁忌。
We cannot wait to see images of people freezing to death or dying of preventable disease before we act.
我们不能在采取行动之前看到人们冻死或死于可预防疾病的景象。
Many of the initial problems have disappeared, and the few remaining incompatibilities are dying a quick and painless death.
很多最初的问题已经消失,遗留的少数不兼容问题也正被快速而顺利地解决。
The Death of Ivan Ilych is a late piece of writing, or relatively so, and it's as good as anything Tolstoy ever wrote: a vivid account of the dying process, as harrowing as anything I have ever read.
伊凡·伊里奇之死是托尔斯泰晚年,或者是相对较晚的作品,但是绝不逊色于他的其它任何小说。这本书如此生动地刻画了死亡过程,让人刻骨铭心。
But by the time of his death he had become convinced of the firm's culpability, and his dying wish was to make cigarette companies stop deceiving people about the risks of smoking.
但到他去世时,他开始相信公司的罪责,他的遗愿是让烟草公司停止关于吸烟风险的欺骗。
Of course, they will not have dying grace when they are in good health, in the midst of life's duties, with death far in advance.
当然,他们得不到,因为身体健康,正在作工的时侯,离死还远得很哩。
Dying under a sign that says "warning danger of death" is not only stupid, it's embarrassing.
死在“有死亡危险”的标记下不但笨而且是一件丢脸的事情。
There seem to be some recurring themes, like those jobs that involve the dead, the dying, a risk of death — and public speaking.
似乎有一些公共演讲中反复出现的题目,如那些工作涉及到死者,濒临死亡的人以及存在死亡的风险。
Transcendent One: I am that which walks with all life. My voice is a death rattle, a last breath in the throat, the whisper of a dying man.
超凡者:我是与所有生命同行的人。我的声音是死之遗言,喉头的最后一口气,濒死者的微声。
Death is the flowering of the new; meditation is the dying of the known.
死亡是新事物的绽放,而冥想是已知的死亡。
Read for yourselves some of the comments on both my self-esteem video and my recent death and dying video and you'll appreciate my point.
你可以自己去看看“我的自尊视频”和“我最近的死亡及垂死的视频”上的一些评论,然后你就会欣赏我的观点了。
Three hours of TV a day 'doubles early death risk. Watching TV for three hours a day can be deadly - doubling your risk of dying early, warn researchers.
研究人员警示大家:每天看电视三小时是有致命伤害的——让早死的风险提高一倍。
So, a class on death might well have a discussion of the process of dying and coming to reconcile yourself with the fact that you're going to die.
一堂死亡课,也许要好好讨论一下死亡的过程,以便让你们接受人终会死去的事实。
The dying boy got a deadly wound of a bullet. He opened his eyes for a moment and then lay on the ground, dead. He died for his country, and it is a worthy death.
这个垂死的孩子受到子弹的致命一击,他睁了一下眼睛,然后躺在地上死了。他为国家而死,死得其所。
While the overall death toll from heart disease has declined, the number of people dying from chronic heart failure continues to rise.
心脏疾病整个的死亡率在下降,而心衰的死亡率却在持续升高。
Objective:To study attitude of medical students to dying and death in order to improve medical education.
死亡教育研究的基础是了解人们对死亡和濒死的认知。
I wasn't afraid of the pain of dying - my life was more painful than any death.
我决不是怕死的痛苦,我的痛苦久已胜过了死。
I wasn't afraid of the pain of dying - my life was more painful than any death.
我决不是怕死的痛苦,我的痛苦久已胜过了死。
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